It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.